Home Back

Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780593051696
Format: Import
ISBN: 0593051696
Label: BANTAM PRESS (TWLD)
Manufacturer: BANTAM PRESS (TWLD)
Number Of Pages: 401
Publication Date: September 30, 2004
Publisher: BANTAM PRESS (TWLD)
Studio: BANTAM PRESS (TWLD)

---

Related Items:

• In Search of King Solomon's Mines
• They Came to Baghdad
• A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen
• Travels in West Africa
• One Last Look
• see more

---

Rating: - Wish I could take this trip
Andrew Eames a British journalist recounts his travels by train in 2002 from London to Baghdad. He replicates the journey that Agatha Christie took back in 1928. Eames interweaves the account of his own adventures in the tumultuous Middle East with Christie's life story, providing background on the culture and history of the places en route. This is an interesting travelogue that is informative and worth reading.

---

Rating: - Like it
I bought this book for my Mum because she loves Christie and ended up reading it myself. I was especially taken by the sections in Eastern Europe and Iraq. This book introduced me to places in geography and history that I had not been to before and was a pleasant and thought-provoking read.

---

Rating: - Captures people, place, and time vividly--well recommended
Why would anyone still read a travelogue in this, the beginning of the 21st century, when it was so easy to find outstanding independent film travel documentaries, many prepared by only one or two individuals at most? Certainly this visual medium combined with well-edited documentary realism and well-scripted travel guide dialog would serve better than print for the purpose of introducing a novice to a new culture, people, or place. But a modern-day print-based travelogue was what our book club ... Read More

---

Rating: - EXQUISITE NOSTALGIA FOR TRAIN LOVERS
By Mark V. Rose, author of BANGKOK, OH BOY!
Andrew Eames' THE 8:55 TO BAGHDAD evokes exquisite nostalgia for train lovers in search of exotic destinations. But Eames does much more. He personally traveled the same rail routes taken by Agatha Christie as she developed ideas for Murder on the Orient Express and many other popular mystery novels often while traversing Europe to Istanbul, Syria and finally Iraq. Simply, it is a traveler's treat.
Years after the famed mystery writer's own ... Read More

---

Rating: - Appeals on many levels.
Part travelogue, part history (of the Balkans and the Middle East, most notably), part Agatha Christie biography, the book satisfied this reader on all three levels. Eames sometimes tried too hard to coin meaningful metaphors, but those instances were easy to overlook. What wasn't easy to overlook was his mis-categorization of Syria as part of President Bush's axis of evil which, as far I know know, included Iran, Iraq, and North Korea. It seems that would have been a relatively easy fact to check. ... Read More

---

Arts & Photography • Biographies & Memoirs • Business & Investing • Children's Books • Comics & Graphic Novels • Computers & Internet • Cooking, Food & Wine • Entertainment • Gay & Lesbian • Health, Mind & Body • History • Home & Garden • Law • Literature & Fiction • Medicine • Mystery & Thrillers • Nonfiction • Outdoors & Nature • Parenting & Families • Professional & Technical • Reference • Religion & Spirituality • Romance • Science • Science Fiction & Fantasy • Sports • Teens • Travel •